A one-woman act on stage in Lucknow!

A documentary performance titled Lady Anandi, recently performed at Baudh Sansthan, was well received by the audience. The play was written and performed by Anuja Ghosalkar, a Bangalore-based artist, in three different languages Hindi, English and Marathi. Even though not many in the audience understood the Marathi dialogues, the scenes were well applauded by all because of Anuja’s powerful performance.The one-woman show revolved around an actress who is haunted by the ghost of her great-grandfather, a late 19th century female impersonator.Chief guest Naresh Saxena, a well-known poet, also enjoyed the play. The play concluded with a 15 minutes question and answer session in which the keen audience participated with great enthusiasm. "Though the documentary form of theatre isn’t very much popular among the theatre lovers in India and is not practiced much here, I am really happy that Lucknowites loved our play," said Anuja towards the end of the session. — Saad Abbasi Basant Kumar and Dia Badgel (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui) Surya Mohan and Anil Rastogi (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui) Kumkum Dhar and Marya Alam (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui) Naresh Saxena and Nutan Vasistha (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui) Purva Naresh and Roop Rekha Verma (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui) Sangita Jaiswal and Sarvesh Goel (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui) Shivanjali, Usha Rai and Veena Rana (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui)